Masks: Blackness, Race, and the Imagination poetry For most of the twentieth

For most of the twentieth century

betrayal rears its ugly head

medical system

"Kill Jar" (original novelette)

" --National Book Review

Masks: Blackness, Race, and the Imagination poetry For most of the twentiethWhat is "race"? A biological fact, a social construction, or an assumed disguise? In Masks: Blackness, Race and the Imagination, acclaimed novelist and critic Adam Lively offers a brilliant exploration of how the concept of blackness has evolved in Western thought and literature, and how changing notions of racial identity helped to shape modern consciousness. Lively traces ideas of racial difference to their earliest expressions in European culture,